Goalball competition is currently underway in Paris. It's a Paralympic sport that was invented for blind and vision-impaired athletes. Three players stand on each side of an 18-meter-long court.

PARIS — Something changes when U.S. Paralympian Tyler Merren puts on his eyeshades. Merren, a 20-year member of the American Paralympic goalball squad, is blind. He walks with a cane and reads Braille ...

Team USA has recently launched its brand for the upcoming 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, a platform designed to showcase the diversity of athletes and the wide range of Olympic and Paralympic sports.

Amanda Dennis is a three-time Paralympic goalball competitor, who's won a silver and a bronze medal for the sport. What Is Goalball, and What Are the Goalball Rules? Goalball originated in 1946 as a ...

One of the most unique sports at the Paris Paralympics is goalball. This game, which has no Olympic equivalent, is specifically designed for visually-impaired athletes. It involves two teams of three ...

Reporting from BERKELEY — The athletes wear plastic black-out goggles and throw or block a ball filled with bells. Just outside the boundaries of the playing court in UC Berkeley’s recreational gym, ...

What do you get when you combine the efforts of the chief medical officer of the Beijing Olympics, a former professional soccer player turned Chancellor’s Public Scholar, a former Paralympic athlete, ...

Goalball is played exclusively by athletes who are blind or visually impaired. It was invented in 1946 to help rehabilitate veterans who had lost their sight during the Second World War. Hans Lorenzen ...